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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.
(b) A ship's horn.
(c) Roars of dangerous animals.
(d) Gunfire.

2. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will take away the women.
(b) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.
(c) That they will anger the spirits.
(d) That they will take their land.

3. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Sticks.
(b) Spears.
(c) Guns.
(d) Swords.

4. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One million square miles.
(b) One hundred thousand acres.
(c) Five acres.
(d) One hundred miles.

5. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?
(a) Windy: the wind blows the hunters' scent away.
(b) Sunny: it is easier to see and run in sunny weather.
(c) Misty: the animals can't see the hunters coming.
(d) Rain: the tracks are easy to see, and the animals are less alert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Canning Stock Route?

2. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

3. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

4. How do the settlers allocate land?

5. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?

(see the answer key)

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